It’s been precisely 4 days because the bombastic PS5 system-seller God of Warfare Ragnarök landed on PC… and modders are already exhausting at work on it. One in every of their first priorities? Stripping the sport of its Sony software program hooks, as there’s already a mod that removes the requirement for a PlayStation Community login.
A PSN login in all probability shouldn’t be shocking for a Sony-published sport, nevertheless it’s grow to be a contentious flashpoint because it was added as a required factor to the PC model of Helldivers 2 post-release. It was ultimately faraway from that sport, however Sony has been baking in PSN logins to each PC sport launched since — and avid gamers aren’t completely happy about it.
Regardless of a typically constructive reception and good efficiency for a high-end title, Ragnarök presently sits at a “Combined” evaluate ranking on Steam, with many customers complaining concerning the obligatory PSN login.
One modder had sufficient, posting a easy and straightforward patch on NexusMods (noticed by WCCFTech) that removes the PlayStation PC SDK runtime requirement. In truth, it’s so easy that calling it a “mod” may be a bit beneficiant — all you need to do is copy two .DLL recordsdata into the sport repository. Launch the sport, click on “No” when it asks to attach your Steam account to PlayStation Community, and Bob’s your bushy Greek berserker god uncle.
On the one hand, I don’t suppose that Sony requiring an account for its PC releases is simply too onerous. Your entire level of Sony’s PC gaming push is to get extra folks invested within the PlayStation platform, and it’s not as if there aren’t tons of sport on Steam that demand secondary logins.
Alternatively… God of Warfare is a single-player story-focused sport, and so is the sequel. The one profit Sony can get from a login is person information for analytics and advertising and marketing, with principally zero further performance delivered to avid gamers. They could have some extent, even when a evaluate bombing marketing campaign is a little bit of a juvenile response.
